As I said MANY times before… italics mean thoughts and stuff… oh something new! In this chapter it's a comm-link message or a bot talking on the TV, and a flash back! I lovvve flashbacks! Enjoy!
It has been awhile since Bulkhead took Bumblebee and Sari downtown. Everybot was bored, anxious to get back to Earth so they could bury their dear friend Prowl. Optimus and Jazz were watching the Cybertronian news while having a can of oil while Ratchet and Arcee were having a friendly conversation in the kitchen.
"In other news," The anchorbot said, "The high council of Cybertron has confirmed that they will be holding a trial for the imprisoned Deceptions, which includes their leader, Megatron…"
Jazz spat out the oil that was in his mouth and Optimus just sat there.
"Prime! We have a message!" Shouted Ratchet from the other room. Jazz and Optimus shook themselves out of their thoughts and jogged to Ratchet.
"Optimus Prime," it was Alpha Trion. Well, this is awkward… Optimus thought.
"Alpha Trion sir," Optimus straightened.
"You might of heard, but we are holding a trial for the Decepticons." Ratchet and Arcee looked surprised, but Optimus and Jazz just looked at each other. Optimus turned back to face Alpha Trion.
"I have heard, sir."
"Good, I want you to be there and explain to Cybertron what they did on Earth." There was a long silence, but soon Optimus spoke.
"Say where and when and I'll be there."
Downtown Iacon was full of life. Autobots just walking around, doing there daily business. It reminded Sari of New York City, but a little less crowded. Sari looked up in awe as she, Bumblebee and Bulkhead strolled through the streets.
"The buildings are so high!" She said, taking out her upgraded cell phone and snapping a picture. They visited many places like the library, and some armour plating stores. Sari still called them clothing stores. She bought two orange bows that matched her dress and attached them to her metal pigtails. She's kinda cute with those bows. Bumblebee thought as Sari danced around the streets. The three then stopped at a café for a snack. It was beautiful outside, so they picked an outdoor table. The waiter came and they all ordered energon.
"You like energon, Sari?" Bulkhead asked as the waiter walked away.
"Yeah, actually, it's pretty good! And besides, I don't think they sell hamburgers or French fries here." Sari replied with a smirk. The waiter came back with three plates of energon and put them down in front of the three friends.
"Enjoy your meal." The waiter said flatly.
"Mmmmm!" Bumblebee licked his lips and took a bite. Followed by Sari and Bulkhead.
The Cybertronian arena was packed with hundreds of thousands of Autobot, talking among themselves. Optimus never seen anything this big. The arena was set up like an Earth court room, with the judge's spot, the accused spot, in this case the Decepticons' spot, a box for the jury, and a VIP section, Optimus guessed that is were he sits, since there was only two chairs. He worked his way over and sat down. He could feel optics staring at him from all around, which made him uncomfortable. He sank in his seat. Just then, somebody came out of the back room, he was blue and had a big chin. Oh scrap… Optimus sunk in his seat even more. Sentinel Prime came up and sat down right beside him.
"Well, well, well." Sentinel cocked, his plate glistened, he must have washed himself quite a few times. Optimus noticed a couple pink scratches on Sentinel's chassis. "If it isn't Optimus Loser!" Sentinel smirked, proud of his nickname.
"Yeah, hi Sentinel." Optimus sat back up in his chair.
"Hmph." Sentinel crossed his arms.
"Attention!" A voice on the loud speaker spoke. The Autobots quieted down. "All rise for the judge!" The Autobots stood up. From the back room walked in Alpha Trion, head of Autobot Council. "Please be seated." The loud speaker said. "Bring in the accused." Several Autobots came in rolling in the Decepticons. First was Megatron, then Lugnut, and finally Shockwave. The Autobots then sat in the jury box. Alpha Trion spoke.
"Fearful Deceptions, do you have anything to say before we begin?"
Not one word.
"Alright, we will call upon Sentinel Magnus and hear his testimony."
"Did you hear that Optimus? Magnus!" Sentinel whispered and stood up. Optimus rolled his optics.
"My fellow Cybertronians!" Sentinel yelled. "These are Decepticons! They wanted to destroy us! Why can't we destroy them! It's payback!" The jury looked at each other. Sentinel turned to them, "Jury, why can't we do what they did to us? Thank you." The Autobots in the audience started yelling and cheering. Some started banging their chairs, as Sentinel sat back down.
"SILEEENCE!" Alpha Trion screamed. The riot quieted down in a snap. Alpha Trion cleared his throat. "I will now like to call on Optimus Prime so he may recall on what has happened on Earth." Optimus gulped and stood up. He walked slowly to the opening in front of the judge. He turned back and noticed Megatron scowling at him.
"Autobots, jury, what has happened on Earth is far too long to explain. So I will generalize it: He wanted to take over Earth and kill all who inhabit it." The jury whispered amongst themselves. "I believe executing them would be unwise, I think we should spread them across the galaxy with the space bridge, so at least they can think about what they have done. Thank you." Optimus turned and sighed. Glad that's over with… He sat back down beside Sentinel.
"Now," Alpha Trion spoke, "We will give some time and let the jury decide on what would be best. Does the accused have any objections?"
There was a long silence.
"The Decepticons will come back no matter what." Megatron growled. Everyone gasped and started yelling and booing. Chunks of metal started flying towards the Decepticons. Optimus and Sentinel ducked in their seats. Optimus could hear the sounds of metal hitting the Decepticons plating.
"But almighty Megatron," Lugnut spoke in a whisper, "what if they decide to execute us?"
"We have many other loyal servants who have escaped the servos of the Autobots." Megatron replied his slow, menacing voice.
Alpha Trion banged his hand hard on his podium. "Calm down Autobots! Calm down!" It seemed to be working as the yelling and the throwing settled down. The jury spoke up.
"We have reached a verdict." Wheeljack stood up. Optimus was afraid, he didn't know what he wanted to be honest. "We have decided that the accused is to be flown to the outreaches of our galaxy over the space bridge, with stasis cuffs on." There were cheers and boos coming from the Autobots, but Optimus was pretty sure that the boos outweighed the cheers. He looked over to Sentinel, who was cursing under his breath.
"Fellow Autobots," Alpha Trion got everybots' attention. "We will punish our Decepticon foes immediately."
"So what d'ya wanna do next, Sari?" Bulkhead asked, he rubbed his stomach, clearly full from the energon.
"Well maybe when 'Bee comes back from the restroom we can go back to Omega and hang out."
"What's takin' him so long?" Just then they heard the sound of femme bots giggling and talking. "No way," Bulkhead whispered. Sari turned around. About 20 femme bots were crowded around a certain bot, there was one on each side of him, arms hooked with his, with the rest trailing behind. Bumblebee made a toothy grin.
"I love being me." He looked back at his fan club. "Alright, ladies, I have to get going, y'know, hero duties and all."
"Awww!" The femmes pleaded. Sari rolled her eyes. 'Hero duties' he says. Hmph. Right before Bumblebee was about to sit down, a femme bot grabbed his arm a snapped her lips against his. Bulkhead's mouth cranked open and Sari grimaced, clenching her fists. How dare she!
"You okay Sari?" Bulkhead whispered.
"…Peachy…" Sari whispered back. The femme's lips parted from Bumblebee's and she skipped off, giggling. Bumblebee was left in a daze, he made his way to his chair and sat down. There was a really awkward silence, until Bulkhead's comm-link activated.
"Bulkhead?" It was Optimus' voice.
"Yeah, Boss-bot?" he leaned forward.
"We need you to help us with the space bridge. Come to my coordinates."
"Space bridge?"
"You'll know when you get here."
"…Alright. On my way!" Bulkhead signed off. He turned to Sari and Bumblebee. "Sorry guys, I gotta go."
"Sure, Bulk!" Sari smiled, "We'll be alright!" Bulkhead transformed into his army van and sped off. Sari turned to Bumblebee with a blank expression, "It's getting pretty late, we should head back to Omega."
"I want to show you something first!" He got up, transformers into his little yellow compact car and opened the passenger seat.
What? More girl bots? Sari stepped in and Bumblebee drove off.
Bulkhead reached the space bridges and noticed an unusual amount of Autobots crowded around. He eventually made it through to Optimus, he noticed he was with Sentinel, the Autobot High Council, and Decepticons... Decepticons? Bulkhead looked over at Optimus with a confused look. Optimus shrugged and gave time for Bulkhead to think.
"Oh." Guess he figured it out. He went to the space bridge and started working.
"I don't understand where we are going Bumblebee." Sari sat on Bumblebee's shoulder as he climbed a ladder on the side of a tall building.
"You'll see!" He smiled and kept climbing.
"That's the problem! I can't!" It was true, Bumblebee made Sari wear a pair of blindfolds for his surprise. Sari crossed her arms and slumped her back. Bumblebee reached the top of the building and put Sari down.
"Alright! You can take off your blindfolds!"
"If this is a trick I'm gonna-" Sari's voice was cut off by the breathtaking view of Iacon. The lights of the city, the Autobots down below looking like ants, everything was beautiful.
"Look up." Bumblebee nudged her and looked up. Sari did the same and her jaw dropped. Thousands of stars lit up the sky, sparkling like they were diamonds in a jewellery store. "It's the one thing I missed the most while I was on Earth." Bumblebee snapped her out of her trance. "Detroit never had this many stars at night."
"No…" Sari agreed, still in awe. Bumblebee laid down and motioned Sari to do the same.
"I used to come here every night." He said while Sari laid down beside him. "The stars made me believe that nothing was wrong with the world." Sari was surprised. Bumblebee? Saying something mature? This wasn't normal.
"Was there something wrong in your life?" Sari asked.
"I did have a good life with my creator when I was a sparkling, long before the war, but then…
"I want you to hide and no matter what, don't come out. You hear me?" Bumblebee noticed his creator was very afraid, swapping rapidly between looking out the window and looking at his little yellow sparkling.
"But daddy-!" Bumblebee protested, choking on his own words.
"GO!" The creator pushed his sparkling off to the side and Bumblebee had no choice but to hide, he hid in the back room under pounds of metal, it was small and cold, which made Bumblebee shiver. He soon heard loud bangs and muffled sounds, he could barely make out the words. He peeked through a hole in the wall and only seen the feet of two drak figures and his creator.
"Where is your sparkling Autobot!"
"I- I don't have one! I swear to you!"
"Don't lie to me!"
"I-I'm not! I-"
There were several bangs and a loud thud. Bumblebee winced saw through the hole his creator fall to the floor. He was terrified and started whimpering. He soon stopped when he heard footsteps and more voices.
"You don't need to look around, there are no energy signatures here."
"We offlined him for no reason?"
"Ha! Oh well!" Bumblebee heard distant laughter that soon faded to silence.
"…I figured out that the metal covered my energy signature. So they couldn't find me."
"Why did they want to find you?"
"They wanted to offline sparklings so they couldn't join the army when they got older. Just like your 'Ancient Egyptians' did." Bumblebee sighed. "So, after that, Autobot rescuers came and put me in what humans call an 'orphanage.' No one liked me, not even my caregivers." He looked to the stars. Sari kept looking at him, the starlight made his optics twinkle, shadows formed across his face plate, giving him a mysterious yet handsome appearance. "So," Bumblebee continued, "I came here and, ya know, thought about stuff."
"What kind of stuff?" Sari asked. Bumblebee smirked.
"Oh lots of stuff! Being in the Elite Guard was my number one! Being able to travel across the galaxy! I always wanted to the first bot to meet an alien."
"And you are!" Sari laughed and punched his shoulder playfully. Bumblebee laughed with her. "Hey, 'Bee?" She started digging around in her dress pocket.
"Yeah, Sari?" Bumblebee was curious about what she was looking for.
"I got something for you." She took out a large bracelet, it was orange and yellow with beads on it. She took out Bumblebee's hand and gently placed her gift in his palm. She took out a similar bracelet, but smaller.
"What is it?" Bumblebee looked closer at his bracelet. The beads had letters on them.
BB & SS BFFS
Bumblebee gave Sari a confused look. Sari chuckled.
"You put it on your wrist, silly!" She placed her bracelet on her left wrist. Bumblebee also placed his bracelet around his left wrist. "Let me explain: This is called a friendship bracelet, friends make one for eachother for fun! See, the orange and yellow are there... well... because we're orange and yellow, the 'BB' stands for Bumblebee, the 'SS' stands for Sari Sumdac and-"
"What does the 'BFFS' stand for?" Bumblebee interupted.
"Best friends forever." Sari smiled. Bumblebee smiled back. Sari looked up to the sky and squinted.
"Hey 'Bee, what's that?" She sat up and pointed to the heavens. Bumblebee didn't see anything at first, but when he sat up and squinted, he knew exactly who it was.
"We should get going!" He got up and scooped Sari into his hands. He leaped down the ladder at a speed Sari had no idea of.
"Hey! What gives?" She got a better look at the thing in the sky. It was orange, and had two giant pincers on each side, and it was coming fast. "What is that thing?"
"That," Bumblebee choked, "is Unicron." He transformed and zoomed off.
Holy! This chapter is like, sooooooooooo long! :'D I didn't really want to divide it. Ah! So THIS is where it gets interesting! Finalllyy! How did you guys like my Bumblebee story? Let me know! And the trial? HOOWAH! Thanks for reviewin'!
QUESTION TIME YAY!: Is there anything you don't like about my story? Is there something I should improve on for future chapters? Be honest! (: